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Ring in the season with IXL Winter Adventures!

Have even more fun over winter break with IXL Winter Adventures! Whether your learners are working through skills at home or on the go, these fun plans will keep their knowledge fresh through winter break…

December 16, 2021 IXL Updates

What’s new on IXL – December 2021

At IXL, we strive to keep our personalized learning platform in line and up to date with students’ evolving needs. That’s why we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a…

December 14, 2021 IXL Updates

What’s new on IXL – November 2021

At IXL, we strive to keep our personalized learning platform in line and up to date with students’ evolving needs. That’s why we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a…

November 17, 2021 IXL Updates

What’s new on IXL – October 2021

At IXL, we strive to keep our personalized learning platform in line and up to date with students’ evolving needs. That’s why we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a…

October 19, 2021 IXL Updates

What’s new on IXL – September 2021

At IXL, we strive to keep our personalized learning platform in line and up to date with students’ evolving needs. That’s why we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a…

September 21, 2021 IXL Updates

The benefits of teaching different text types

People write for a variety of purposes, such as to inform, persuade, or elicit emotion. To make sure students understand the versatility of writing, teachers in English language arts courses should expose students to different…

June 29, 2021 In the Classroom

Beyond ‘Drill and Kill’: How students develop mastery with IXL

Note: This article first appeared on TeachThought on April 27, 2021.  In 1956, a team led by an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago created a framework for categorizing educational goals, called the Taxonomy…

June 2, 2021 In the Classroom

New to the IXL family: Vocabulary.com and Wyzant!

Over the past year, IXL took important steps to continue meeting the evolving needs of all learners. To expand personalized language arts instruction, we acquired Vocabulary.com, the leading educational destination for improving literacy through vocabulary…

May 27, 2021 IXL Updates

What’s new on IXL – May 2021

At IXL, we strive to keep our personalized learning platform in line and up to date with students’ evolving needs. Each month, we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a…

May 20, 2021 IXL Updates

IXL Spring Learning Showdown 2021: Leaderboard Update #1

After a year of distance learning, students are returning to this year’s Spring Learning Showdown with new-found vigor! Take a look at our first leaderboard to see which classes around the world have risen to…

April 16, 2021 In the Classroom

Enter the 2021 IXL Spring Learning Showdown!

From April 1 through April 30, students attending school online and in person will compete on behalf of their classrooms to boost their knowledge. The nine classrooms with the highest average number of questions answered…

March 17, 2021 In the Classroom

What’s new on IXL – December 2020

Read on for a roundup of recent releases, including new textbook skill plans, checkpoint skills, and Spanish-language support for key math skills. …

December 30, 2020 IXL Updates
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